SINAI curates the G+L 11/22

The landscape architecture firm SINAI has been known throughout Germany since the BUGA in Heilbronn at the latest. And the next lighthouse projects are already in the pipeline. We are therefore all the more delighted to have the Berlin-based firm on board for the third guest-curated issue of Garten + Landschaft. The office is designing the November 2022 issue. A little insight.

Climate change and changing lifestyles are changing our cities. For many years, dense development, “the classic city”, with both narrow and crowded streets, was seen as a symbol of good urbanity and a model for landscape architecture and urban planning. In the face of climate change with its heat waves and heavy rainfall events, this image seems obsolete. Do we have to say goodbye to building density in favor of infiltration troughs and windbreaks? And will our facades disappear behind green masses? These are the questions addressed by landscape architecture firm SINAI in this year’s guest curated Garten + Landschaft.

Following Topotek 1 (2020) and bauchplan ).( (2021), the Berlin office is guest curator for the November 2022 issue. In concrete terms, this means that the editorial team of G+L is daring to experiment for the third time by handing over the lead responsibility for the content to a landscape architecture firm. An experiment with renewed success: the result is an issue with five major dialogues on the transformation of the city that explore the planning ambivalences of our time.

To this end, SINAI spoke to landscape architects, urban planners, architects and researchers about visions, competitions, participation, bureaucracy and research. Carlo W. Becker (bgmr) and Nils Buschmann (^ROBERTNEUNTM), Franz Reschke (FRL) and Steffan Robel (A24 Landschaft), Klaus Overmeyer (Urban Catalyst) and Ulrike Böhm (bbzl), Heiko Sieker (Sieker) and Gerhard Hauber (Henning Larsen) as well as Sandra Lenzholzer (Wageningen University) and Alice Labadini (TU Munich) will have their say. In the dialogs, SINAI is not looking for Sunday confessions, but is interested in hopes, frustrations and conflicts. These should bring about change and move landscape architecture and urban planning. In doing so, SINAI spans an arc from abstract to practical questions, from visions to implementation.

You can find out more about the SINAI landscape architecture office here.